The Bulgarian Studies Association is a non-profit scholarly organization which promotes the study of and exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Bulgaria and Bulgarians: language, literature, culture, history, politics, economics and international relations.

The Bulgarian Studies Association is a non-profit scholarly organization which promotes the study of and exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Bulgaria and Bulgarians: language, literature, culture, history, politics, economics and international relations.

Sofia 2016

Beyond the Borders: 10th Joint Meeting of Bulgarian and North American Scholars

Sofia, June 27-29, 2016

For more than forty years the tradition of Bulgarian-North American academic dialogs has been carried on by the Council for Bulgarian Studies Abroad at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Studies Association. The first conference was in 1973 in Madison, WI, followed by conferences in Varna (1978), Boston, MA (1982), Smoljan (1987), Pittsburgh, PA (1994), Blagoevgrad (1999), Columbus, OH (2003), Varna (2008), and Eugene, OR (2012).

The topic of the 2016 conference, "Beyond the Borders", invites various perceptions of "borders" (disciplinary, historical, cultural, national, etc.) and their interpretation as liminal spaces of distancing, interaction and transformation.